High Performance Outdoor Lighting

Detroit is one of five cities that are in the process of upgrading their streetlights to LED as charter members of DOE’s High-Performance Outdoor Lighting Accelerator, which aims to replace more than 500,000 outdoor luminaires in the next two years. But there are hundreds of other cities across the country — from Los Angeles, to Phoenix, to New York — that are taking the same steps or considering doing so. The conversion of many of these cities — including Detroit — was facilitated by DOE’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC), which provides technical guidance and useful tools, model specifications, and other information resources to help navigate street lighting conversion.